Wednesday, April 3 | 3:30 – 5:00 PM
2023-2024 Seminar Series: Eman Abdelhadi “Impossible Futures: Why Women Leave American Muslim Communities”
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Relationships between individual Muslim Americans and Muslim community spaces–like mosques and Islamic schools–shift over the life course, but these trajectories are gendered. While both women and men wander out of Muslim communities in emerging adulthood, women who leave tend to stay away while men often return. Using life history interviews, this talk empirically establishes this discrepancy and explains it. I argue that Muslim communities express their anxieties about the future by monitoring women’s bodies and behaviors, creating unintended pressures that complicate women’s relationships with Islam and drive women out of Muslim communities.
Presented by Boston University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Co-sponsored by Boston University Religion Department
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
*If you have questions about the event, please email our moderator Najwa Mayer (Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar, Boston University) at najwamay@bu.edu or G Forristall at wgs@bu.edu.